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Miscellaneous
Tips and Tricks For QuarkXPress™ - Part Two |
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Tip No. 11
Now, pay attention to this next one...
One of the main purposes of a page layout program and what differentiates
it from modern wordprocessors that allow compositions using
text and graphics (like Microsoft® Word) is that a page layout
program allows precise placement of text and graphics.
Oftentimes, you may find yourself repositioning lines by themselves
or groups of lines and other objects.
The following examples show the difference in the coordinates
in the Measurements palette when a line is selected vs. when
a line plus another object is selected. Knowing how Quark™
handles this and other such subtleties can make the difference
between making a professional or an amateurish layout.
In the example below, a horizontal line having an 8-point thickness
is selected. Notice the y-coordinate in the Measurements palette
(78 pt).
Next, Shift-Click to select the text box with the line. Notice
how the y-coordinate in the Measurements palette has changed
from 78 points to 74 points. Why is this? When a line is selected
by itself, the Measurements are made from the midpoint of the
line (see Tip
No. 4). However, when a line is selected as part of a group
(or a multiple selection), the measurements are made from the
outside edge of the line.
In this case, there is a difference of 4 points from outside
edge of the line to the midpoint of the line because the line
width is 8 points. This is a noticeable difference, but with
lines having smaller widths (such as 1-point) you may or may
not notice that something is not right with your layout. The
principle extant here applies to vertical as well as horizontal
lines, so x-coordinates can be affected as well.
Tip No. 12
By now, some of you may realize how to use the principle in
the previous tip to create lines with mitered corners. Following
is the step-by-step procedure:
1. Draw first line and snap to
guide.
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2. Draw text box and select it
and line together then drag until
edge of line snaps to guide.
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3. Draw second line and snap to
guide.
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4. Select it and text box and drag
until edge of line snaps to guide.
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For a mitered corner only, you can quit at step 3 above. Step
4 is thrown in to show how to confine the edges of the lines
to the page guides. The text box is a temporary object used
to reposition the line and can be deleted when you have finished.
Impress your friends with that one...and don't forget you
saw it here at Mike's Sketchpad first!
Tip No. 13
For picture boxes containing grayscale or true color images
(RGB or CMYK) and which do not use clipping paths, set them
up with a white background. Do not set them up with a background
color of "None". The reason is that Linotronic imagesetters
and other high-end output devices cannot differentiate the edges
of the image from the background. The background pixels need
to be mapped like any other pixel in the image. Click
here to setup the picture box creation tools so all picture
boxes have a white background by default.
Output results of picture box with a white
background...
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Output results of picture box with a background
of "None"...
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Notes:
a.) The background color of a picture box containing a black
and white (1-bit) image can be set to "None".
b.) If a clipping path is used, version 4.x of QuarkXPress will
automatically set the background to "None".
c.) If you are using a clipping path with an earlier version
of QuarkXPress, the image must be an EPS file saved with a clipping
path and you have to manually set the background color of the
picture box to "None".
Click
Here To Continue...
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